Recent reviews by dolan

WOW this game is good

yes, good

HELL yeah

goooooood game

Super long unskippable cutscenes. Frequent crashes. Advertisements and microtransactions in your face 24/7, all leading up to an insurmountable grind - it took me a few hours (most of them watching the unskippable, uninteresting cutscenes) to gain ONE overall point. The only saving grace is the gameplay and general presentation. I kind of regret buying it at $10, as it's genuinely a downgrade from previous years, but I'm still going to play it just because it's fresher. We really need a competitor on the PC to tell 2K to ♥♥♥♥ off with their carefree, greedy practices.

As great as this game is, if you have a problem taking initiative (even if that means taking initiative to find other people to play with) you'll probably have a hard time finding things to do in Foxhole. You can't do much all by yourself - logistics is possible but time consuming alone, building is tough and VERY time consuming alone as you need a lot of resources (and often times protection) to construct anything significant, alongside the time it takes to whack things with a hammer. And combat is pretty much impossible alone. You might be able to Rambo your way through a few people by yourself but you likely won't make any significant headway in the game without fighting alongside other people.

And that's where this game really shines to me. It is a MULTIPLAYER experience, and it has just the right community that realizes this as well. If you like to do everything yourself, it's not the right game for you, plain and simple. But also recognize you don't have to organize the entire server to get something done, you can do a lot of work with just 2 or 3 other people. I helped build a pretty huge roadblock with a few Russian guys and we had a lot of fun defending it from raiding parties. I also joined a huge offensive on a bridge and racked up tons of kills on that front, making huge progress over a couple hours.

If you want to see large scale battles and work together to make that happen, even if you're not super into crafting or building and you just want to shoot ♥♥♥♥, there's a place in Foxhole for you. The closest thing I could compare it to is the ARMA series, particularly the Wasteland gamemode, but on a much larger scale, more refined and with a much better engine. Somehow the top down shooter combat actually works really well, although bushes are a little bit awkward in particular.

No reason to spend money on this game when there are hundreds of free flash games that are the exact same thing, if not better. Maybe if this is your sort of genre and you have played out every other arena shooter I would say you should buy it on sale.

Get it on sale and it's totally worth it, one of the most rewarding third person shooters around. Relatively difficult but not a controller thrower. I wouldn't recommend getting it full price, though, the game's too short to warrant $15. If you spend $7 you'll easily get at least a dollar per hour, maybe you'll even go back and replay it again some other time.

If GTA 5 had the shooting mechanics and character animations of MP3, it would be the perfect game. Rockstar pls make.

This is hands down my favorite management game of all time. Something about constructing a prison piece by piece and just watching it function is absolutely amazing. To me, at least, it's a little bit like building a giant ant farm - give it all the resources it needs to survive, and then watch the prison go through its routine, changing some things around every now and then. There are fewer rules and challenges compared to something like Rimworld but the tradeoff is more creativity and more freedom.

I've spent about 140 hours as of writing this review and I'm not as into it as I was in early hours but I really didn't expect to get so much out of such a small game. I can't exactly place what makes the experience of Prison Architect so interesting to me but I love it. There's a balance of whackiness and potential seriousness that makes the setting fun too.

Oh, and you can try to escape your own prison, so that's pretty cool, though I prefer burning it down.

Super Smash Bros. but more fun and about $260 cheaper.